foggy
covered or enveloped as if with fog: a foggy mirror.
bewildered; confused: Difficulties with memory, concentration, attention, and fatigue left me feeling foggy and muddled much of the time.
Photography. affected by fog.
Origin of foggy
1Other words for foggy
Other words from foggy
- fog·gi·ly, adverb
- fog·gi·ness, noun
- un·fog·gy, adjective
Words that may be confused with foggy
- foggy , fogy
Words Nearby foggy
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How to use foggy in a sentence
The first anniversary of the helicopter crash that claimed the lives of Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others arrives Tuesday, and so much has happened since that foggy Sunday morning in Southern California.
The Kobe Bryant crash one year later: Lakers’ plans, the probe, Vanessa Bryant’s wishes | Cindy Boren | January 26, 2021 | Washington PostOne foggy night the Covenant, still in Scotland’s coastal waters, inadvertently runs down a rowboat.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Kidnapped’ is not just an adventure tale, it’s a timely novel about politics and dissent | Michael Dirda | January 20, 2021 | Washington PostI fill papers, drawers, entire rooms with records, notes, thoughts, while she grows foggier with each passing day.
‘Burnt Sugar,’ a challenging Booker Prize finalist, is hard to take, but harder to shake off | Ron Charles | January 19, 2021 | Washington PostOn foggy streets in south London this week, traffic had thinned, but the sidewalks were still full of schoolchildren.
As COVID spreads across Europe, a weary continent goes back into lockdown | David Meyer | November 7, 2020 | FortuneI splurged on flashlights—one light bulb didn’t seem sufficient for wandering around the foggy forest in the middle of the night.
How to hunt for star-nosed moles (and their holes) | Kenneth Catania | September 15, 2020 | Popular-Science
On a cold, foggy night On Feb 26, 1998 I walked out a dingy hotel in handcuffs.
Do you realize that after six in the evening it fogs over and is foggy at dawn, too?
Pablo Escobar’s Private Prison Is Now Run by Monks for Senior Citizens | Jeff Campagna | June 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“Its foggy wording and odd locution stand out in the Constitution,” Waldman writes.
Clinton has much to be proud of from her foggy Bottom tenure, reset included.
Back at foggy Bottom… More than three years after U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq, nation-building proceeds apace.
P.J. O’Rourke on Foreign Policy and France, Hold the Swiss | P. J. O’Rourke | January 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe morning was wet and foggy, and the Prussians surprised the French and cut them off from the road to Paris.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonAll at once he remembered his promise, and a cunning loophole dawned in his foggy brain.
The Woman Gives | Owen JohnsonThe night, I remember, was warmly foggy when after midnight we went to finish our talk at my house.
The New Machiavelli | Herbert George WellsHe could not help but voice that plaint, as he had so many times before during that foggy, nightmare journey.
Star Born | Andre NortonHe jumped out of bed, dressed, tore down the lane through a foggy dawn, and ascended the hill.
Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy
British Dictionary definitions for foggy
/ (ˈfɒɡɪ) /
thick with fog
obscure or confused
another word for fogged
not the foggiest, not the foggiest idea or not the foggiest notion no idea whatsoever: I haven't the foggiest
Derived forms of foggy
- foggily, adverb
- fogginess, noun
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